Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Milk, bananas, bread, paper towels, mortgages. Yup, add mortgages to your Costco shopping list. It’s true; the USA’s largest warehouse membership chain now offers mortgages. After a year of testing the waters, Costco is launching a full service mortgage lending program on [...]
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Mortgage rates decline in latest week
April 16th, 2012
davidguide Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Mortgage rates fell in the week ending April 12. Fixed mortgage rates slid a full tenth of a percent in the latest week, and mark the third consecutive week of declines, mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported Thursday The 15-year fixed rate average [...]
Mortgage rate rises above 4 percent for first time since October
March 23rd, 2012
davidguide Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage climbed above 4 percent for the first time since October, Freddie Mac reported Thursday. In its weekly report, the mortgage giant noted the average rate on the 30-year fixed rate mortgage increased to 4.08 percent [...]
What Do Republican Presidential Candidates Say on Foreclosure Crisis? Not Much.
February 28th, 2012
davidguide ProPublica Staff Washington, DC, United States (ProPublica) – by Lois Beckett As we’ve detailed, President Obama’s plans to help homeowners have come up short time and again. We recently looked at Obama’s latest proposals, most of which are unlikely to make a major dent in the crisis. So, how about the Republican presidential candidates: What [...]
Mortgage rates fall to new lows
January 13th, 2012
davidguide Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – If it sounds like you have heard this before you are right. Mortgage rates have fallen once again to a record low. On Thursday, mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported the average rate on 30-year fixed mortgages fell to 3.89 percent in the [...]
New fed rules to aid more underwater homeowners
October 25th, 2011
davidguide Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Monday morning the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced new rules that will allow many more “underwater” homeowners, those who owe more than their properties are worth, to refinance at current historical low mortgage rates. Up to a million borrowers are expected to take [...]
Stocks on track to make it three up days in a row
October 7th, 2011
davidguide Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Shorty before 2 p.m. Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up about 75 points, on track for the market to close up for its third consecutive day. Driving stocks higher was news out of Europe that progress continued to be made [...]
Half of Americans suffering while rich prosper
June 23rd, 2011
davidguide Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Staff Yonkers, NY, United States (AHN) – The saying “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer,” is seemingly true based on a two-year study of the groups. For American households earning less than $50,000 per year, it has been far more difficult on the economic road to [...]
Finding Bad Credit Loan Help
June 4th, 2011
davidguide Getting a bad credit report happens even to the best of us. As hard as we try to be on time with our payments, sometimes circumstances are beyond our control and we find ourselves in bad credit. However, you may like to remember that one or two late payments are not going to automatically land [...]
Mortgage rates for 30-year loans down to 4.80%
April 25th, 2011
davidguide Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed U.S. home loans fell for the first time in five weeks, decreasing borrowing costs as all-cash buyers make up a growing share of the housing market. View full post on All Stories
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